Weekends Required: A Danvers Novel By Sydney Landon

Claire Walters has worked for Jason Danvers as his assistant for three years, but he’s never appreciated her as a woman—until the day she jumps out of a cake at his friend’s bachelor party.…

To support her ailing mother, Claire is forced to work a second job at a party-planning company. But when her handsome boss ends up with a front-row seat to the action, she’s mortified—and he’s intrigued.

With Danvers International in the middle of an important merger, Jason asks Claire to accompany him on weekend business trips—and suddenly all her fantasies are coming true. Her outspoken best friend thinks that getting a little “executive attention” will solve everything. But Claire sees more in Jason than just sex.

Jason is determined to know how the beautiful, sexy woman in the cake could also be his mousy assistant. The more time they spend together, the more he realizes how much fun it can be to mix business with pleasure. And how much he wants to offer her a happily ever after of her own…. 1 day ago

A–“Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel”, Isabel Allende
B–“Silk”, Alessandro Baricco
C–“The Mysterious Affair at Styles&The Secret Adversary”, Agatha Christie
D–“A Study in Scarlet”, Arthur Conan Doyle
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F–“Bossypants”, Tina Fey
G–“Eat Pray Love”, Elizabeth Gilbert
H–“The Old Man and the Sea”, Ernest Hemingway
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K–“Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, Mindy Kalling
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M–”Unlimited: how to build an exceptional life”, Jillian Michaels
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P–”A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future”, Daniel H. Pink
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R–“Não Vou Chorar o Passado”, Tiago Rebelo
S–“Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly”, Luís Sepulveda
T–“Listen to My Voice”, Susanna Tamaro
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W–”Good news, bad news”, David Wolstencroft
X–“Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather”, Gao Xingjian
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C – Ender’s Shadow, Orson Scott Card
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E – Civil Disobedience, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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G – Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

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Didn’t have much time to read, nor did I have the resources as I was in the process of moving back to the United States and trying to save as much money as I could, so just a public domain PDF file of Emerson’s Civil Disobedience. Now that I’m back home, I’m using a Kindle that my mom got me for Christmas so I plan on doing a whole lot more reading now. 1 week ago

Tonight, I decided to pick a poet from the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Wikipedia article. I chose Marie Ponsot, whom Ferlinghetti published. I found only one of her poems on the net, Springing. It is a very peculiar poem. 1 month ago

C-Queen of bubble in the big city-Meg Cabot
E-Mockingbird-Kathryn Erskine
K-Friend keeping-Julie Klam
S-Lessons from Madame Chic-Jennifer L. Scott
W-All gone-Alex Witchel
Z-The garden of my imaan-Farhana Zia1 month ago

As I’m reading Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series I decided to read a Scottish poem today. I didn’t mean to pick Robert Burns, but that’s what I ended up with. Address to a Haggis. :) 1 month ago

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I started Moby Dick (Herman Melville)this month but had to return it to the school library before I could finish it (we’re on summer vacation and had to return all books before we left). I may have to read some pdf’s to remain on schedule. 1 month ago

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P.S. I didn’t/won’t include books I have read before 1 month ago

Today it’s his birthday. That’s how I discovered him via the Random House Facebook site. So I looked him up on Wikipedia and knew all at once that he was someone, whose poetry I’d enjoy. I picked his poem Poetry as Insurgent Art from the Wikipedia article, too. 1 month ago

A – Adrian, Lara – Kiss of Midnight
B – Banks, Maya – Seducing Simon
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D – Dohner, Laurann – Fury
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F – Folsom, Tina – Samson’s Lovely Mortal
G – Gerritsen, Tess – The Sinner
H – Hart, Liliana – Dane
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R – Rowlings, J.K. – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
S – Sparks, Nicholas – The Notebook
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This time, I used another Flavorwire compilation, where contemporary poets recommend their favourite love poems offering a Valentine’s Day inspiration.

Kenneth Koch’s poem, To you is recommended by Angela Voras-Hills. I already have a poet for letter H, but I’ll check out one of her poems anyway.

Here’s the link if you want to get inspired: http://flavorwire.com/370805/14-great-poets-on-their-favorite-love-poems/view-all 2 months ago

Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

This was a challenging novel. I liked it but I had a hard time getting into it. 2 months ago

I found a collection of Beautiful poems about books here: http://flavorwire.com/372979/12-beautiful-poems-for-book-lovers/view-all

And I picked Dylan Thomas. His Do not go gently is one of my favourite poems. But this time I read Notes on the Art of Poetry from the above mentioned collection. I guess, it was not the last time that I’ll use that collection for this goal. 2 months ago

Again, I came across the poem (Sensation) during my daily readings, this time in an issue of Connaissance des Arts, where it was mentioned in an article on Edward Hopper. I read the poem both in French and English and I preferred the original French version. 2 months ago

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On my GoodReads account, I’ve set a goal for myself in 2013 of 40 books (including this A-Z challenge). I beat my goal of 26 books in 2012 by 1. Let’s hope I can do the same this year! 2 months ago

Last week I’ve been down with the flu so I read nothing. But today I returned to my poem hunting for this goal and ended up with I need not go by Thomas Hardy. 2 months ago

A – “Wintergirls” by Laurie Halse Anderson
B – “Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less” – Nicholas Boothman
C – “Al Capone Does My Shirts” – Gennifer Choldenko
D – “The Beach Dogs” – Colin Dann
E – “A Winter Dream” – Richard Paul Evans
F – “A Million Little Pieces” – James Frey
G – “Coraline” – Neil Gaiman
H – “The Curious Incident of the Dog …” – Mark Haddon
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J – “Out Of The Blue” – Belinda Jones
K – “3,096 Days” – Natascha Kampusch
L – “The Best Little Girl in the World” – Steven Levenkron
M – “Piercing” – Ryu Murakami
N – “Lolita” – Vladimir Nobokov
O – “Animal Farm” – George Orwell
P – “A Butcher, A Baker, A Candle-stick Maker” – Suzanne Portnoy
Q – “Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl” – Tracy Quan
R – “Harry Potter and The Chamber Of Secrets” – J.K. Rowling
S – “Squirrel Meets Chipmunk – A Modern Bestiary” – David Sedaris
T – “A Dog’s Tale” – Mark Twain
U – “First They Killed My Father” – Loung Ung
V – “Around The World in Eighty Days” – Jules Verne
W – “Tipping The Velvet” – Sarah Waters
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Today, I was leafing through a French home deco mag that had a few pages en hommage of Jean Cocteau, so I decided to look him up. I picked a short epigramme of his: Je t’aime. I also read it in French for a change. :) 3 months ago

I picked her and her poem, Custom randomly from poets.org. I don’t think I ever read anything like that before. It was just what I needed for Sunday night before bedtime. 3 months ago

Her poem, Renascence was mentioned in a book I was reading, so I decided to read the poem itself. It was a bit like reading Emily Dickinson. 3 months ago

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I searched for a lot of good book ideas, I have a lot of books so that helped but I also bought some and borrowed from library or friends. 3 months ago

Angel House By JC Edwards

Roxy’s only goal is to protect the homeless shelter where she works. Jason Reed has inherited the land the shelter is on. When he goes to find out why his uncle never sold, he meets up with Roxy at the front desk.

She challenges him to get involved and it backfires when he does just that! Sparks fly while Jason tries to discover why it is so important to keep the shelter open. Is there something she‘s not telling him? 4 months ago

The Billionaire’s Secret By Meadow Taylor.

Love on the Rock…

When Chloe Winters answers an advertisement seeking a private tutor for a six-year-old girl, little does she know it means relocating from metropolitan Boston to an isolated mansion on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Newfoundland. Nor does she realize the little girl’s widower father is Gaelan Byrne, a billionaire alpha-male type whose brooding good looks have brought him as much fame as his wealth. But Chloe, shocked by his coldness toward his daughter, vows to remain unmoved by both his fortune and his charisma.

Gaelan Byrne has been dragged to hell and back by women before and is none too happy to discover the matronly retired teacher he hoped to hire turns out to be the beautiful, caring Chloe. But how can he fire her when the daughter he is incapable of loving adores her?

Chloe and Gaelan edge toward one another, and the attraction they feel soon engulfs them with all the intensity of a spring storm. But the secrets Gaelan keeps makes any chance for happiness seem as remote as the windswept cliffs of Newfoundland. 4 months ago

A- Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood
B- Skinny Bitch – Kim Barnouin&Rory Freedman; The Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
C-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland&Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
D- Submarine – Joe Dunthorne
E- Two for the Dough – Janet Evanovich, Human Monster – David Everitt
F-Howard’s End – EM Forster; It’s a Wonderful Lie – ed. Emily Franklin
G-The Doubtful Guest, The Iron Tonic, The Other Statue, The Willowdale Handcar, The Object Lesson–Edward Gorey
H- 84 Charing Cross Road, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Q’s Legacy – Helene Hanff
I- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
J- No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July
K- The Penal Colony – Franz Kafka
L- The Magician’s Nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawntreader – CS Lewis
M- Twilight; New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer
N- Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky; Mortified – David Nadelberg
O- Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell
P- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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R- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
S- Perfume – Patrick Suskind
T- Smile When You’re Lying – Chuck Thompson
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V- Maria – Maria Von Trapp
W- The Boxcar Children #1 – Gertrude Chandler Warner (I know, it’s a kids’s book, but I LOVED it when I was young…I had to reread it; The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester
X- Sky Burial – Xinran
Y-Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
Z- Harry the Dirty Dog series – Gene Zion, Therese Raquin – Emile Zola 5 years ago

I am so close with so little time before the New Year when I was hoping to finish!

Allen
Barnes
Coelho
Diaz
Ephron
French
Gaimen
Harkness
Ishiguro
Joyce
Kelby
Lowry
Meno
Noon
Orwell
Plath
Quinn
Roth
Swanson
Tyler
Urrea
Vonnegut
Wilson
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Yoshimoto
Zentner

I just need to finish my X author :) 4 months ago

taking books out of the library. I still have a few books at home with some of them so I’ll finish those besides I think I only have a few left. 4 months ago